New Picture Puzzles and “Mixed Bag” Questions for August 2013 are at the top of the PUZZLES PAGE ;
the Skeptical Crossword this month has “Alt-Med” as a theme and can be found HERE ;
and August’s Logic & Maths Problems are HERE.
Enjoy!
By Mal Vickers,
with assistance from Martin Hadley
Never has any psychic ever passed a rigorous scientific test of their claimed ability. While most skeptics are well aware of this, you’d think the media and society in general knew nothing of it.
Imagine what kind of world it would be if, from tomorrow, psychics really did have the abilities they claim to possess. The prizes from the next lottery would go to a series of psychics, presumably in order of merit. Fairly soon, non-psychics would stop buying tickets and the lotteries would fold. There wouldn’t be much point in casinos, bingo or horse races either.
The world we inhabit isn’t like that. We have lotteries and casinos that make a fortune, despite the presence of many psychics who travel the world flaunting their talents.
This month, (July 2013) Australia will be hosting a visit from prominent, UK based, self-proclaimed psychic Sally Morgan. Sally is scheduled to do View More Another Big Psychic Show Rolls into Town
1. 54 cents
2. Derek
3. 8 pencils, 60 jars
4. a = 3, b = 5, c = 1, d = 7, e = 6, f = 2
5. 134 metres
6. The number 5
7. There are four possible answers: 22, 23, 24 or 25 blocks
8. Each word can be turned into a country by changing one letter; so your three answers should be CHILD (Chile) LAPS (Laos) and TIGER (Niger)
9. a. 2nd b. Tasmania c. Bill d. romance
10. 40
1. (a) Monopoly; (b) Pictionary; (c) Cluedo; (d) Trivial Pursuit; (e) Snakes and Ladders
2. East
3. Portugal
4. Mathematics: A vinculum is the horizontal line used to separate the numerator and denominator in a fraction
5. Verdun was a World War I battle. The others took place during World War II
6. Chromosomes
7. 1975
8. Mickey Mouse
9. Earl Grey
10. Charlie Chaplin
Associate Professor Louis Roller PhD
Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences,
Monash University
“We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things:
and once they are engraved upon the memory, woe betide him who would endeavour to erase them” — Goethe, 1774
Vitamins have caught the popular imagination. A recent study established that some 52 per cent of the Australian population takes some form of complementary medicine. It found that 37 per cent of these people were taking vitamins. Overall, 19.2 percent of the total Australian population – about 4.4 million people – are taking vitamins. Many people take over-the-counter vitamins without professional advice and a few practitioners prescribe megavitamin therapy. View More Vitamins: A Panacea for all Ills?
July’s SKEPTICAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE has the theme of CULTS and SECTS and can be found HERE. You have your choice of either straight or cryptic clues.
July’s LOGIC & MATHS PROBLEMS HERE
The PICTURE PUZZLES and “MIXED BAG” QUESTIONS are in their usual spot at the top of the PUZZLES PAGE.
